Stability control device of vehicle distinctive of split-.mu. road

Abstract

A stability control device of a vehicle having a vehicle body, front and rear wheels, a device for estimating a liability of the vehicle body to drift out for producing a drift-out quantity which generally increases along with increase of the drift-out liability; a device for detecting lateral acceleration of the vehicle body; a brake for selectively applying a variable braking force to each of the wheels; and a controller for controlling the brake so as to variably apply a braking force to each of the wheels, wherein the controller controls the brake based upon the drift-out quantity such that a braking force applied to the rear wheels is increased with an increase of the drift-out quantity except for when the lateral acceleration is substantially minor.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.